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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

January 10, 1921 · Page 5 of 8

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LIVES WITH BIRDS KSII L?a'*' rtefers to Biro. T* THEIR PROPER ADDRESS^ or seagulls, which are, he slates, the TWELVE MILLION TREE SEEPS TO EUROPE Oldtime Sleeping Couches. The saying "thin as a rail" does largest of their kind, havlng'a spread The ancients slept on skins, but oot refer to a fence rail, as Is commonly .of wings of five feet. Their contribution The demagogue, rteazall, Wyo. later beds were made of rushes, to the bird known supposed, but to humanity is the scavenger heather and straw. The Romans were as a rail. rails, of whicb there The duty they perform. It Is estimated Pa. the first to nse feathers to make their The suffragette, New Freedom, are several In this country, Caretaker Has Absolutely No species that they eat iwo pounds of offal a beds more comfortable. Hellogabalns. live in have extremely marshes and I day. 218 B. C., Is credited with having employed Other Companions. The newlywed, Honeyville, Utah. compressed that they may bodies so air cushions, and air beds were thread between reeds and their way That Biggest Gold Shipment. used generally In the Sixteenth century. The old maid, Prirnm, Tenn. rushes. The Cunarder Aquitania arrived at Job About as Lonesome as One Could New York the other day from Southampton, The bachelor, Jane, Minn. by Imagine Is Eagerly Sought —. .,x via Cherbourg, with the biggest Hundreds of Men. The highbrow, Browning, 111^ shipment of gold ever carried on one steamship to this country. Expert Auto an WANTED—A man to live alone on The gold bullion was packed in 384 The lowbrow, Nick Carter, Tex. island (inland lake) eight miles from wooden boxes clamped with iron bands shore:' transportation, food, clothing, shelter, Re pairing boat, etc., furnished no work no and "the -value estimated at lS1/^ million The profiteer, Pirate Cove, Alaska. •0^'! I Li compensation. 'Summertime, 600 Tribune dollars in United States currency. —Los Angeles Times. Building, New York. and Welding On the voyage it was kept in a Every Easter Sunday for the last the specie room under charge of the IN OTHER CITIES fifteen years this "advertisement has purser and the chief officer. appeared in "Help Wanted" columns. The entrance to the specie room The newspapers in New York city Every year hundreds of men, and occasionally was guarded the entire trip and was consume the equivalent of over 9,000 Bring Your Car a woman, have made application watched by members of the crew and spruce trees daily. for the job. the company's detectives from the in NOW! Many of those who have answered pier until the gold was taken from Horace Greeley was the first candidate and received -no reply have formed the the ship. The greater part of the for the presidency to make an opinion that the whole thing is a practical specie goes to the Federal Reserve extensive speech-making tour of the joke, played by an individual bank toward the payment of Great THE MOTOR INN country. iwlio is collecting data of the different Britain's share of the Anglo-French Ikinds of people who react to the same loan due October 15. Asheville, N. C., has a community A. H. Anderson impulse—or something like that. Investigation, The largest shipment of gold previously canning kitchen which is supplied with however, has proved that carried on one vessel was 13% all the indoern facilities for this kind there is in truth a man who offers million dollars, taken on the North of work. precisely the sort of position described Herman Lloyd liner Cecilie in Augus^ and ftiat it has been filled satisfactorily 1934. for England, but brought back each summer for 15 years. to America when Capt. Charles PoI'ack The man is the director of a large received^ warning by Wireless well-known dry good^ house in New that war was imminent. A Few Snaps on York. He has a home in the Adirondacks Start After the Rats. near a lake with four little islands Rats, which cause considerable loss in the center. Every year a~colony to farmers, should be fought consistently. of arctic or burgomaster seagulls Merchandise tha.t says the biological department alights on these islands and stays of the United States Department of there throughout the summer. In order The American Forestry Association of Washington. D. C., played Agriculture. Rats reproduce so rapidly to protect the eggs and the young, .' Santa Clans to the war-devastated areas of France and Belgium. Its ithat a spasmodic raid on them is not You can use every day a man is hired to live on one of the gift from the American people was a shipment of over twelve million 'lasting. They begin to bear yourg islands. tree seeds Contained in the three bags shown being addressed by the when three months old ard have six He has no duty other than the patrolling jmuf ladles in this picture. to ten litters per year with an average of the shore and the bird of ten young per litter. haunts. '-He goes early in May when 1 cold, an engine can usually be started The best method of control is to the birds begin to arrive and leaves These prices 0Lre considered very low by injecting a small (quantity of intake rat-proof buildings so the pests after they do. In 110 case is it necessary .'cannot get inside and eat. All waste HITS AND MISSES gasoline (about a teaspoonful) into for him to stay longer than October as we are making room for food should be disposed of so the rats 1. I the cylinder, say specialists of the S£ cannot get it. new merchandise There is a humorous angle to the United States department of Agriculture. Where it is possible, poison should Keep Engines in Repair situation, an angle that gives truth In very cold weather it may be be trlven them, and barium carbonate The first essential in gasoline engine to the trite saying that distance lends necessary to apply heat. Sufficient is a satisfactory killer. Traps should operation is to keep it in good enchantment. When the advisability heat can sometimes be obtained by 1 also be kept going as in the past. Bait of getting a man to look after these A regulation al wool army All wool underwear that A real snap. Shirts and repair, say the^ specialists. All catalogues pouring hot water in the cooling system. ithem with fresh meat, nuts or vegetables birds first formulated itself in the O. D. shirt, double elbow retails at $7.50. Our drawers at and dii'ections furnished by If only a little hot and they will get the rats. mind of the man who has made himself and breast only price only 75c each the manufacturer should be studied water is available it may be $3.50 $4.50 their friend, he decided he could carefully. Most manufacturers publish Way to Get Rid of Paintings. more effective if poured slowly hire one of the men in the neighboring instructions on the care and operation "I'm sick and tired of looking at over the intake manifold, and the, carburetor community for the task. of the engines they manufac.fosre, that old painting. I never did like ft Sheep lined vests at less He broached the subject to some of as well, if the latter is covered anyhow, and I only hung it up he!cause and in order to get the most Goats hair sox. One of the Extra heavy Leather mitts than .wholesale 'prices them and offered to pay $30 a month so no water can enter it. It is a it was a Wedding present." satisfactory results from an engine best the Government Double lined. A snap at :With "food and shelter as described in good plan to wrap cloths around the $5.25 "1 know, my dear, but what shaM Che^-owner should study and put into the advertisement. Thirty dollacs a had for durability and manifold before the water is applied. we do with it?" SI .00 per pair month at that time meant a good deal practice the instructions. comfort. While they Some people use a blowtorch to heat "Why don't you give it to ywrr more than it does today. Nevertheless, 45c JEveryone who operates a gas engine"shoiild last We have several pairs of Huh? That's what everybody etse the manifold, but this is a dangerous he could find nobody to whom the A real heavy all-wool ilearn first to stop, and all rubber 4 buckle artics. does v.*ith unwanted pictures." practice. The blowtorch can be used, a pair Idea of living a solitary life on O. D. Cloth cap. Only reason to the probable cause of $2.95 par pair At. however, to heat the spark plugs aftr lake island made any appeal. -J2EE2?: trouble ^which developes. In traciixtg they have been removed. Before Knowing human nature intimately— trouble a definite system should Work shirts at 75c he employs hundreds of men and women—he A real leather vest, \&e they are replaced, prime the engine. Hob nail shoes. Very reasonable Greg's Cafe followed. When an engine refuses decided to insert an advertisement leather sleeves. Can not Another method of using the blowtorch priced, at start the trouble will, with a in city papers, tell briefly what be duplicated at $10.00 effectively is to heat a piece of $3.50 rxeiy few. exceptions, be due to some was expected and make no offer of -408 North Main Street Our price metal pipe the size of the air intake compensation other than food, clothing, $7.50 Will outwear any 2 or 3 rmtemspfcion of the supply of the of the carburetor. Then place this so and shelter. The response was ordinary pair of shoes. proper mixture of gas and air, or to i'the: REGULAR MEALS AT all of the air entering must pass thru stupendous. Immediately letters began The only shoe for hard failure of the electrical system ALL HOURS it. Another method, commonly used in pouring in by the score from men use... r:a&ilig •cirfairJb furnishes the spark to fire the Open Until Midnight starting automobiles in cold weather, in every walk of life asking that they Overalls at TKompressed mixture. Every system to $1.25 a be allowed to go off into the solitudes. Good Coffee, Chops And locate trouble should take these two i,- 4. «.u The Bowery bum applied and said a Stteaks A Specialty points into consideration. that he wanted nothing but the woods or "high test" gasoline. With all engines using spark plugs and the waters the youth whose love PRICES REASONABLE It is comparatively easy to ascertain had been unrequited made a similar Legal Point for Motarist request the man whose aim was to whether electrical or ignition system more serious accident oc- Pro5ably arrive at the topmost rung of the ladder is working properly. Remove the plug I raiiro3(j We have a few dozen among motl)rists at of literary success was certain that and by taking it apart see if the por- pairs of shoes that we erossings than at an other points in •the advertisement had been inserted cetein is not broken. See that thejthe hardlj. consider a very good highway3 a dav passi as a godsend from heaven. t. F. FAIRBANKS points are properly spaced and re-|that buy at aoes not see tw0 or hree accj Out of the hundreds that applied, move the deposit of carbon. A space jdents one was finally chosen. Among the #f thj3 chronicled in the In normal times this shoe about one thirty-second of an inch fifteen who have worked there are a All wool O. D. Reg. Army pre3, writes Leslie Childs, legal editor sold for more money I Dealer In —the thickness of a worn dime—is well-known naturalist, an attorney general of American Motorist, in the current Blanket. The real kind. than we are asking for iiie pi'ojper distance between the of a neighboring state, and a issue of that instructive and entertaining Only. gg.jSS it. COAL, WOOD, LIME man narnnd Daniel Boone, who is a points. magazine. These accidents They are a heavy work direct descendant of the pioneer who CEMENT, SEWER P|PE, To test the spark connect the wire Come in and look us over. have become so frequent and so serious bore that name. shoe. It will stand the -with the plug and place the latter so BRICK AND WALL A good many other bargains that they furnish a most potential 1' In almost every case the men asked hardest of use. Manufacturers #hat the metal base touches the en.gx&e YOU PLjASTEjR. await argument in favor of the abolishment •to be allowed" to reti\rn the following name on every pair. casting, then .crank the engine of grade crossings. In the light year, but the rules laid- down by the and note whether a spark jumps the 'man who has interested himself in this of all this, it behooves the motorist to Austin Army Store space between the points. This spark work are against this. He does not know just what is expected of him by vs&oald .be a heavy blue, a bluish- Iwarit the keeper of the birds to grow the law at points of this kind. Office 301 East Bridge St. acquainted with the people in the Wfcite, or a "fat" yellow one looking From the cases reviewed, it would neighboring community, as he might fike a small flame. But if it is thin Phone: Main 32 seem that the courts have placed the if he returned to the same place year £lk Hotel Building Bridge Streets sriid greenish, or showing red, the Austin, Minn. duty to stop, look and listen at railroad after year. €ftances are it is too weak to fire the crossings squarely upon the motorist. It is not the men thlrt interest hims eb&rge of gasoline. In such case, or if He cannot hope to recover for it is the preservation of -this species .3feere is no spark, trouble may be in injury received at points of this kind rSheivire connections, or the magneto, unless he can show entire freedom if dry cells are used, they may be STORAGE] SERVICE from contributory negligence. BATTERY [STATION ?wreak. See that all the wire is prop•-i-yrly And in exercising the required care insulated and not soaked with he must of necessity take into consideration WINTER STORAGE 0 oil. and that all connections are tight the physical surroundings When you are ready to put ffd of the particular place, such as trees, iiis wiring and dry cells are used, the houses, etc., that may obstruct his your away for the winter, car latter may be tested by attaching the view. If the surroundings demand it, he 'call the Pierce Battery Co., to -wires direct to the points of the cells. ,, must not only stop, look andlisten, take care of your battery, 112 -Though magnetos seldom give trou- but should get out of his machine and '.hie, if there is every reason to be walk ahead to make certain the way E. Maple street. Phone (Bridge Sieve that it is not functioning properly, is clear. Unless he takes these precautions 301. is should be taken to an expert if or the probabilities are he will repairs. not be free from an imputation of negligence that will seriously interfere COLD RETARDS VAPORIZING with his right of recovery ii case IN TAKE FUEL GASOLINE ENGINES of accident. The most serious effect of cold Traveling Bags, Shoes, Overshoes weather on gas engine operation is CHIROPRACTIC Violin Superstitions. attributable to the fact that cold re-fcards There Is no musical instrument Suit Cases, Trunks, the vaporizing of the fuel. Gasoline Rubber Boots, about which cling so many queer no* ADJUSTMENTS as a liquid must be turned into tions and superstitions as the violin. Harness and -vapor and this vapor mixed with air. One of the strangest is that held Blankets, Wool j'A thin spray of gasoline in warm air a And Get Well by so many people that the tone of w. Leather Goods -will quickly turn to vapor, but at low violin is often improved by Its being almost broken and then mended. It seems ifcemperatures a considerable part of Socks, GloVes, etc. ,of all kinds is Incredible, but that very Idea israch a spray will remain a liquid, 'v believed by thousands of people. Whence will not make an explosive mixiSasre. Wm. A. Chapman, i$f 0- The remedy is obvious. A greatquantity D.c. Buddhist's Leader. Wandering" of gasoline must be furbished Dalai the religious head o! Lama, so as to give off more vapor Chiropractor the Buddhist faith, was so overcome in order to make a mixture rich 4 by the fact had trodden that Infidels Austin, Minn. •iGDOugh to be combustible, or the air "-'i fci the streets of the forbidden city that smist be heated so the gasoline will be fled to the open country, and for Tel. Bridge 277 for Appointment. *arsporize more readily. many years has been a wanderer mfmk northern China. If the .weather is only moderately 1»' J?